ABSTRACT
Contemporary art curatorial practice in Cyprus, on the one hand, and what we could broadly term left-wing or leftist visions, ideas and practices on the other, have been crossing paths in unexpected ways. In this chapter the author unfolds the content and the nature of these subtle encounters which would otherwise go unspoken and unrecorded. It focuses on this 'haunting', the encounter between leftist ideas and contemporary art curation, by examining the discourse(s) advanced by the four curatorial performances under analysis against the fundamentals of the leftist agendas as they have been enacted in Cyprus. The author then examines the ways in which the two are moving apart. The four contemporary art curatorial performances, initiated by Greek-Cypriots, introduced a pair of novel discourses regarding curatorial work in the Republic of Cyprus: a semantic discourse over what Cyprus 'is' and a curatorial discourse over the ways curation is practised in 137the country.
